Breakdown lays out a fulsome set of policy recommendations

Breakdown addresses arguably one of the most contentious and consequential set of policy issues facing Canada today—the nexus of resource development, climate change, Indigenous rights and Alberta alienation. It presents the history of four pipeline projects and overlays the political decisions that have resulted in many projects not being supported or being delayed significantly. It's also one of five books nominated for this year's prestigious Donner Prize, the best public policy book of the year. This is an excerpt.

Dennis McConaghy, author of Breakdown: The Pipeline Debate and the Threat to Canada’s Future. 'The reason for writing the book was to try to catalyze common ground within Canada to have both a credible and proportionate national climate policy, while sustaining the economic contribution of its hydrocarbon production sector. That is as concisely as I can express.'Photograph courtesy of Dundurn

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BY Dennis McConaghy

May 18, 2020

An untenable risk for any future major development of resources or related infrastructure must be confronted. Do the Indigenous Peoples of Canada currently possess a de facto veto or not on major infrastructure projects in Canada? At the end of 2018, this issue remained unresolved, and it may yet un...

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